Mackubin Thomas Owens is a senior national security fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute , editing its journal Orbis from 2008 to 2020. A Marine Corps infantry veteran of the Vietnam War, ...
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On May 22, 1856, Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina entered the Senate chamber and proceeded to beat Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts nearly to death with a cane. Brooks’ attack was prompted by ...
Mackubin Owens, of Newport, a monthly contributor, is a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. The partisan rancor attending the recent confirmation hearings for ...